Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] (Joerg Schilling) writes: > > > As said, license compatibility needs to be discussed separately. If you > > like > > to allow to publish binaries from GPLd programs for _any_ OS that does not > > come with a GPLd "libc", you need to allow (*) to link _any_ GPLd program > > against _any_ library that is not part of "the work" of the GPLd program. > > The > > rules of the GPL end at "work" limit and neither libc nor libschily or > > libscg > > are part of the "work" mkisofs. For this reason, there is no problem with > > the > > fact that mkisofs links against libschily and libscg. > > No we don't. We can just keep releasing Debian GNU/Linux which has a > GPLed "libc". It is not our problem nor our concern if Schilli OS > does not. Debian is legally only concerned with "Debian OS" and not > "_any_ OS".
You are uninformed: libc on Linux is under LGPL and the LGPL is as "incompatible" to GPL as the CDDL is "incomparible" to the GPL. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
